the last time you saw me here was way back in november, right before the december madness started and my life changed drastically. while i don't feel the need to explain absences either in advance or after the fact, i wanted to take this opportunity to catch you guys up on where i'm at right now and how i've been reflecting on 2020 to shape my goals for 2021. i missed you all a bunch and i hope these changes are welcomed! like i said, i went through a lot of changes and milestones in these past two months, and life looks completely different to me than when i last made a post on here. so i thought i could just chat off the cuff (sort of) with you all and get you up to speed on everything i've got going on. i'm sure it seems like i've disappeared completely and don't intend on continuing on with the same content... and that's true, to a degree. so grab your morning coffee and let's chat! when i say life looks completely different... it looks completely differentin december, i was pretty much juggling schoolwork with proposal writing and research. then at the very end of the december and during the turn of the new year, my partner and i packed up our entire life and moved quite a few neighborhoods over (to an awesome new place that has more than one room! woohoo!). it was an immensely crazy time, especially with deadlines and malfunctions and all sorts of bad timing. but, without a doubt, we are absolutely loving our new place, from its spaciousness to its proximity to things that aren't suburbs. my mental health was also a rollercoaster last month as it pretty much varied day to day depending on how many previously mentioned stressors were on my mind. there were some really good days, like days i got cool results from my research or days i finally turned in a take-home exam. there were some extremely bad days to balance those. i wasn't really in a consistent mindspace to make equally consistent content, thus why you may have seen me upload two youtube videos one week then none the next. i couldn't put to words what was going on, and it felt like throwing myself a pity party every time i tried to compose a tweet explaining that i was just really going through it, so that's why you're only hearing about it now. oh, and on top of all of that, we decided to adopt a dog. lmao. yeah. i know it seems like a really irresponsible decision given everything else that was going on, but i promise you that no one on earth was more prepared for adopting a dog than my partner and i. it's been about a month since we took our baby home and he has been nothing but welcomed, loved, and spoiled since then. it's also been really great for mental and physical health as he needs to go outside regularly and i almost never went outside before. now we take walks all the time, soak in the sun, and enjoy trips to the bookstore (he LOVES the bookstore!) together and life altogether feels so much brighter. i love him so much, and i hope you all get to experience the utter bliss and joy that comes with bonding with an animal. okay... so what about content?it's still coming, no worries. my overall presence online has decreased but i still love making content nonetheless. as you may have already noticed, i use my twitter sparingly, typically only to boost my friends' videos or tweet a funny anecdote. i honestly try not to use it much as most of the time it raises my blood pressure. so if you're following me there and haven't seen me enough to keep the mutual, don't worry about it. you can unfollow me, i won't mind! as for instagram, i'm really hoping to make more content, especially with my journal. i got a traveler's notebook for my birthday in december and i have been loving it ever since. it has totally revived my love for journalling and creative journalling, and thus i've been making a lot of content based off of my journal. so hopefully you'll see more if it on your feed in the future, but worry not! i still intend to include bookish content, if not bookish journalling content. and of course, youtube and this blog are the two platforms i derive the most joy out of, and will likely not change too much. youtube, like instagram, has already seen a bit of a change in that i'm including less bookish content and more journalling content, which has done nothing but make my heart happy to share with you guys (unless there's some classist jerk in my comments). again, my aim is mostly to share content that makes me happy in the hopes that you all enjoy it as well. if not, then at least i'm enjoying myself, right? important changes for this yearhere's a list of the significant changes i've made to my online presence since the start of the year:
so where does that leave us? well, i have some ideas that i'm ruminating on for content but nothing at the forefront. like i've said, i have no concrete plans to post anything, it'll just happen when it happens. but i hope you're around when things drop!
here are links to my updated social media pages if you want to stay in the loop: youtube
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1/26/2021 09:42:52 am
i absolutely ADORE all your journaling content and have been so inspired to also start making more spreads in my own so i can't wait to see all that you do in 2021! i struggled so much with star ratings over the past couple years and in 2020 i started balancing the 1-5 stars with a 1-10 average of different components and it's been so helpful. now i don't even think about star ratings anymore i'll just fill out my categories, get an average and whatever star that equals will be what i use, saves the hassle 😂 also because i can't not say this, i adore your puppy and can't wait to see more of him 💕
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hi, i'm mari, and i'm a STEM grad student, i watch baseball, and i read... a lot of books. i hope you learn some-thing new while you're here!
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